Samsung Galaxy S II T-Mobile Review
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Sharing a similar design footprint to the Sprint Samsung Epic 4G Touch, with its size, dimensions, and weight, T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy S II is every bit the same appealing handset that we love. Plastic in nature, it’s lightweight for its size, but we truly like its rubbery textured back cover that keeps it looking clean at all times. However, it’s your conventional looking smartphone slate.
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T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy S II is plastic in nature, but lightweight for its size | |
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Above all, its 4.52” WVGA Super AMOLED Plus display continues to impress us with its wide viewing angles, high-contrast looks, and vibrant color production. Even though it’s sufficient for most things, its resolution is clearly beginning to show its age – and it’s especially evident with web browsing!
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T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy S II comes with 4.52” WVGA Super AMOLED Plus display | ||
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Around its sides, we find its volume rocker, power button, 3.5 mm headset jack, noise cancellation microphone, standard microphone, and a microUSB port – with the latter, you gain video-out functionality with the use of an MHL adapter. Around the back, it features an 8-megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash and notches for its speaker. Meanwhile, pulling off the back cover reveals its beefy 1,850 mAh battery, SIM card slot, and microSD card slot.
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microUSB port on the bottom edge | Volume key on the left | Power key on the right | 3.5 mm jack on top |
The sides of the Samsung Galaxy S II for T-Mobile | |||
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Back | Rear camera | Battery compartment |
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40 Comments
1. remixfa posted on 10 Oct 2011, 07:06 3 3
S3.. makes me cry every time i think about how Tmobile pulled the bait n switch on all those people waiting for an SGS2
8. bobfreking55 posted on 10 Oct 2011, 08:41 0 0
The video review shows lagginess. Benchmarks show otherwise... why???
12. remixfa posted on 10 Oct 2011, 10:37 0 0
benchmarks are not a true indicator of real world performance. Snapdragon's are notoriously easy to mess with when it comes to Quadrant Benchmarks, so my guess is Samsung messed with them a bit so it would squelch some people's fears of the under performing S3 processor.
It will be fine for 90% of the people out there, but tech heads like me and people that want that buttery smoothness will see the difference right away.
13. remixfa posted on 10 Oct 2011, 10:38 0 0
Also, touchwiz has been optimized for Exynos. So a few updates might help it out immensely. However, I dont expect samsung to be putting too much update weight behind this version of the SGS2 since 90% of the rest of the world is getting the exynos version. Love it out of the box or dont buy it.
33. bobfreking55 posted on 11 Oct 2011, 06:59 0 0
So this is the worst??
17. Ivan6479 posted on 10 Oct 2011, 11:44 2 0
Damn what's up with people giving you a thumbs down? You are only speaking the truth. It was pretty dirty of T-mobile to pull that crap on their customers especially seeing how they were the last ones to get the device. Oh well thank goodness I'm with At&t because I am loving my SGS2 with my Exynos processor. :)
2. Nickmfnjackson posted on 10 Oct 2011, 07:11 2 0
Buy this today or wait for the nexus prime??? I'm so tired of waiting...
4. Rooney (unregistered) posted on 10 Oct 2011, 07:32 0 0
Let 's buy it. Nexus Prime is just a trial on Ice Cream Sandwich OS, nothing special, camera is just 5MP. Nex Prime like nexus one andnexus S just the trial and expiriments of new Rom. The others device will be update soon after
5. willardcw4 posted on 10 Oct 2011, 07:35 0 0
Don't pretend to know the specs on the Nexus Prime. They haven't been announced. It could be a 13MP camera for all we know.
7. KEVlN posted on 10 Oct 2011, 07:51 1 0
The MP count doesn't mean much. It might just have a 5MP camera but the sensor could produce results better than the SGSII's 8MP camera. Sure SGSII might get ICS sometime but I can assure you it will not be soon. Of all the manufacturers, Samsung has been known to keep their consumers waiting the longest. It took forever for the original SGS (vibrant) to get updated from android 2.1 eclair to 2.2 froyo and by the time they released froyo to the public (which wasn't OTA but through Samsung's proprietary software), android 2,3 gingerbread was out and being pushed to other phones. So if history repeats itself and your anticipating an update for ICS on the SGSII, you can say bye bye to that dream now.
22. taz89 posted on 10 Oct 2011, 13:54 0 1
in the US it gets update late because of your carriers...in the UK galaxy series have been getting updates quicker than everyone else
9. bobfreking55 posted on 10 Oct 2011, 08:42 0 0
Nexus Prime will set the new Standard.
I'd say go with the new standard. :)
19. The_Miz posted on 10 Oct 2011, 11:57 3 5
Oh yes, because the Nexus S really set a new standard.
24. Thump3rDX17 posted on 10 Oct 2011, 15:11 2 0
right? and how about that iPhone 4S? real revolutionary huh? ;)
27. The_Miz posted on 10 Oct 2011, 15:38 0 5
Yup. Jealous much?
28. Thump3rDX17 posted on 10 Oct 2011, 15:42 1 0
your sarcasm does your 4S no justice.
6. KEVlN posted on 10 Oct 2011, 07:36 1 0
I'd wait for the prime. You can't really go wrong with either but If you want vanilla android go Prime... If you want a user friendly-ish UI go SGSII. The SGSII is still the best phone on the market and Verizon is rumored to have exclusivity over the Prime so you might have a longer wait than you expected if your going with T-Mobile.
3. RORYREVOLUTION posted on 10 Oct 2011, 07:17 3 0
No points on the upgraded data speeds? Seems like they should have just kept the exynos processor.
14. remixfa posted on 10 Oct 2011, 10:39 2 0
exactly. real world speeds are in the teens most of the time regardless of if its capable of 21mb/s or 42mb/s. they dropped 25%+ power to have an advertising gimick. ugh.
21. RORYREVOLUTION posted on 10 Oct 2011, 12:16 0 0
It makes be wonder why Verizon didn't do something similar. If the Exynos processor isn't capable with LTE, why didn't they do something like this? I mean sure it sucks it has a snapdragon processor and all but its better than not having it at all.
